Agreed. I respect his opinion too, but I just have a hard time seeing this.

If I was asked to put together a setlist of 20 songs I'm not sure I'd have a CT song on it, but I for sure would have some LWS songs on it.

Yeah one thing worth noting is that we should create another poll in six months or so. I remember when BW and AFTW came out people had similar positive, initial responses, and in retrospect it was because they were jazzed up about new music from DMB.

After they’ve been beaten with their 40th Come Tomorrow, 50th That Girl Is You, and 1,000th Can’t Stop, my hunch is all of these ratings drop a point or two and things start becoming a lot clearer.

Yeah one thing worth noting is that we should create another poll in six months or so. I remember when BW and AFTW came out people had similar positive, initial responses, and in retrospect it was because they were jazzed up about new music from DMB.

After they’ve been beaten with their 40th Come Tomorrow, 50th That Girl Is You, and 1,000th Can’t Stop, my hunch is all of these ratings drop a point or two and things start becoming a lot clearer.

I stated that last night, I think a lot of the excitement is because it's a new DMB studio album. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good things on this album and I know I'm more of nostalgia fan, but I just don't see people clamoring for a lot of the album in a year.

I stated that last night, I think a lot of the excitement is because it's a new DMB studio album. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good things on this album and I know I'm more of nostalgia fan, but I just don't see people clamoring for a lot of the album in a year.

Yeah, spot on. And I’m not trying to sound holier than thou, I remember thinking Time Bomb was pretty good the first time I heard it and six months later I don’t know if there was a song I hated more in the catalog. I’m just trying to check my excitement and make sure I’m truly listening to this thing with an objective mindset.

With that said, the good songs, IMO, are REALLY good, and the bad ones are generally REALLY bad (though some are inoffensive but not great, like Do You Remember).

I stated that last night, I think a lot of the excitement is because it's a new DMB studio album. Don't get me wrong, there are some really good things on this album and I know I'm more of nostalgia fan, but I just don't see people clamoring for a lot of the album in a year.

I think that's fair, but I will say my first few listens to BW and AFTW left me pretty unsatisfied. There were songs I really enjoyed, but I felt there were throwaways right away that didn't interest me at all. I don't get that from this one at all.

Yeah one thing worth noting is that we should create another poll in six months or so. I remember when BW and AFTW came out people had similar positive, initial responses, and in retrospect it was because they were jazzed up about new music from DMB.

After they’ve been beaten with their 40th Come Tomorrow, 50th That Girl Is You, and 1,000th Can’t Stop, my hunch is all of these ratings drop a point or two and things start becoming a lot clearer.

I don't think we'll ever reach that point, though, because:

1. I don't see this band keeping the touring schedule going much longer; and

2. Nobody really goes to 7-8+ shows per summer any longer.

This isn't 2005, where a lot of the people on this board (myself included) were out there all summer hitting shows and getting smacked around with Bayou and Everyshow constantly.

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What's this about 'extended delay?' Hardened boarders know TDC was only down for two days: the day it went down, and the day it went back up.

1. I don't see this band keeping the touring schedule going much longer; and

2. Nobody really goes to 7-8+ shows per summer any longer.

This isn't 2005, where a lot of the people on this board (myself included) were out there all summer hitting shows and getting smacked around with Bayou and Everyshow constantly.

Yeah but even setlist watching will become dull and whether we want to admit it or not, we watch sets to project hope on the shows we DO attend, so when we see the same stuff getting played over and over that drowns that hope and makes us hate the songs getting played too much.